From Latin 'incendere' (to set on fire), from 'candere' (to glow) — same PIE root as 'candle' and 'incandescent.'
Designed to cause fires; tending to inflame or provoke; a person who sets fires deliberately, or a device designed to start fires.
From Latin incendiārius (setting on fire, causing a conflagration, belonging to fire), from incendium (a fire, a blaze, conflagration), from incendere (to kindle, to set on fire, to inflame), composed of in- (in, into, upon) and candēre (to glow, to be white-hot, to shine). Latin candēre derives from PIE *kand- (to shine, to glow brightly). This root generated one of the richest luminosity clusters in English: candle (from Latin candēla, a thing that glows), candid (from Latin candidus, brilliant white — Roman candidates wore white togas), candidate (from candidatus,
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